Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role:

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team. As a Senior Staff Engineer at Samsara, you will be a technical leader that brings new ideas and expertise to guide the team’s technical architecture to enable increasingly demanding features and customer use cases. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring that Samsara continues to be at the leading edge of safety, sustainability, and efficiency for the world of physical operations. This is a hands-on role where you will work on the most demanding, critical projects for Samsara’s customers alongside other highly-skilled Samsara engineers.

Samsara’s Fleet Safety team builds a comprehensive solution utilizing Samsara’s GPS Fleet Tracking and AI Dash Cam hardware products to improve driver safety using AI and data analysis to create web and mobile workflows, provide real-time driver feedback, and streamline video-based coaching. Samsara customers depend on these features to create safety programs that dramatically improve driver safety, reward safe driving practices, and build trust by exonerating drivers in no-fault accidents.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in Canada. 

You should apply if: 

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With millions of IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies, driving scalable innovation for customers across industries, driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the workers that are keeping our economy running - drivers, mechanics, service technicians - and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

In this role, you will:

• You level-up Samsara’s application of emerging AI technologies and set the pace for development, aiding the team in finding clever ways to simplify problems
• You understand not just the technical and product capabilities but also the nuances of the businesses they support. You help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with their customers’ needs.
• You lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across our fleet safety orgnazition to enable fast-paced product innovation. You may own one or more critical components.
• You ensure that the organizations with Samsara are aligned to a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that fit well together.
• You exert influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. You hold peers and teams to a high bar.
• You are considered an authority on technical issues by both the technical and business communities and are frequently consulted when making difficult trade-off decisions. You also drive awareness about the impact and consequences of technical decisions on the business.
• You demonstrate significant innovation, creativity, and judgment when solving challenging problems.
• You identify future skills needed across your organization and advocate for the development and/or acquisition of those skills to senior leaders. You scout top talent and recruit them to Samsara.
• You actively mentor staff level engineers. You develop and institutionalize best practices.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience as a software engineer building customer-facing applications with at least 8 of those years in an architect or leadership role and 6+ years of experience leading cross-organization projects.
• Entrepreneurial experience.
• Stellar programming/coding fundamentals.
• Expertise working on large-scale enterprise software applications.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Experience in applying Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence to real-world applications.
• Technical mastery in Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C++, or other similar languages.